The Press-Enterprise writes that "The Fifth International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition begins [March 4] with a lecture from a UCLA nutrition expert on how eating broccoli can make up for a genetic flaw that leaves half of us at greater risk of colon and lung cancer and ends Thursday with a discussion of research on how cutting out steak dinners can fight global warming."

Harvard naturalist, theorist, and humanist E.O. Wilson discusses his work with ants, his book The Creation, and why he writes with pen and paper. It's hard to picture, if you know him only by his scientific reputation, but E.O. Wilson confesses it freely: He loves watching preachers on television," writes the WaPo.

Jeffrey Schloss, Professor of Biology at Westmont College and Director of Biological Programs for the Christian Environmental Association; and Nancey Murphy, Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary reflect on current debates about intelligent design, emergent research on science and religion, the environment, and other issues of contemporary concern. Dr. Murphy was the Adventist Forum Conference keynote speaker in 2006.

Please, dear God, let this more than just empty political posturing.

Peter Baker writes in The Washington Post that "Bush's views [on climate change] have evolved. He has found the science increasingly persuasive and believes more needs to be done, especially after a set of secret briefings last winter. . . .